Return-Path: <rossb@WellsFargo.COM-DeleteThis> Received: from opus.labs.agilent.com (root@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis [15.0.168.176]) by jr.labs.agilent.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18979)/8.9.3 AgilentLabs Workstation) with ESMTP id JAA28136 for <wind_talk_ls@jr.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis>; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 09:03:40 -0700 (PDT) From: rossb@WellsFargo.COM-DeleteThis Received: from msgbas1.agilent.com (msgbas1.cos.agilent.com [130.29.152.58]) by opus.labs.agilent.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18979)/8.9.3 AgilentLabs Workstation) with ESMTP id JAA14431 for <wind_talk@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis>; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 09:03:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tora.wellsfargo.com (tora.wellsfargo.com [159.37.7.58]) by msgbas1.agilent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2676F103 for <wind_talk@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis>; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 10:03:33 -0600 (MDT) Received: from unixm1.wellsfargo.com (unixm1.wellsfargo.com [10.26.27.229]) by tora.wellsfargo.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA440165 for <wind_talk@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis>; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 09:04:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xcgi-calax-01.wellsfargo.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by unixm1.wellsfargo.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA02786 for <wind_talk@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis>; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 09:03:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: by imc2.wellsfargo.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id <39WW9HX2>; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 09:03:00 -0700 Message-ID: <8B034BE24156D3119CF90001FA7EEA8101E1D0A0@xcem-casfo-04.wellsfargo.com-DeleteThis> To: wind_talk@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis Subject: Self Rescue for Lost Fin Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 09:02:59 -0700 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"
If anyone would like to detail what he/she does to self rescue when they
lose the fin, I would appreciate it.
I have heard that the harness it really to much (how do you tie it on?) and
maybe dragging a line would be better.
I had always planned to drag my safety kit, and last night I had my first
opportunity to try it. It didn't work so well as I kept turning up into the
wind and sailing backward. Maybe part of that problem was that I was
uphauling and so standing in the middle of the board by the mast.
This makes me think that a crucial part of the self rescue may be where
you're standing on the board. Maybe it doesn't work so well unless you can
get back, so maybe you're better off starting from a water start position.
In my case last night it was an academic lesson as the incident occurred
between the kite park and the Albany bulb, on the inside jibe sailing at
Isabel between A bouy (just above the island) and as far toward the race
track I dared that southerly wind. I had taken out my floater because, as
is not unusual for Isabel, it looked like a lake, but out a short way it's
windy--it was 23 to 25 by bouy A. I wasn't even in a rigging frenzy and I
forgot to screw in my fin. Interestingly, I sailed for about 45 minutes
before it fell out. (Power box.) So from where it happened, it was a 1/2
float down wind down wave to the new park on Albany blub.
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